SURVEY: Elite Qualification on MILES or SEGMENTS
Oct 20, 1999 | 10:05 am
#47
Original Member
Join Date: May 1998
Location: Palo Alto, CA, USA
Posts: 3,475
1) Do you qualify on miles or segments?
-- miles, UA Premier Exec
2) What region do you live in (East, Midwest, West, Europe, Asia, Mideast/Africa)
-- West Coast USA
3) What is your average mileage per segment?
-- 1725
-- miles, UA Premier Exec
2) What region do you live in (East, Midwest, West, Europe, Asia, Mideast/Africa)
-- West Coast USA
3) What is your average mileage per segment?
-- 1725
Oct 20, 1999 | 11:45 am
#48
Commander Catcop
Join Date: May 1998
Posts: 10,259
>1) Do you qualify on miles or segments ?
Miles ( I don't pay attention to segments because I get lost after the first three months of flying.)
>>2) What region do you live in: East coast.
(the greatest state in the world, New Jersey!)
>>3) What is your average mileage per segment? About 2,000
Miles ( I don't pay attention to segments because I get lost after the first three months of flying.)
>>2) What region do you live in: East coast.
(the greatest state in the world, New Jersey!)
>>3) What is your average mileage per segment? About 2,000
Oct 20, 1999 | 12:24 pm
#49
Join Date: Sep 1999
Location: Cambridge, MA USA
Posts: 69
> Do you qualify on miles or segments ?
Depends on the year. This year, it'll be miles. It's been segments when I flew lots of short (500-700 mi) hops.
> What region do you live in?
Boston, MA.
> What is your average mileage per segment?
1.5K.
Sanjeev
Depends on the year. This year, it'll be miles. It's been segments when I flew lots of short (500-700 mi) hops.
> What region do you live in?
Boston, MA.
> What is your average mileage per segment?
1.5K.
Sanjeev
Oct 20, 1999 | 1:49 pm
#50
Original Member
Join Date: May 1998
Location: Maryland
Programs: UA MM Gold, Marriott LT Titanium
Posts: 23,764
> Do you qualify on miles or segments ?
Last year UA 1K on sgements. This year UA 1K either way.
> What region do you live in?
Baltimore, MD.
> What is your average mileage per segment?
Probably around 500-700.
Last year UA 1K on sgements. This year UA 1K either way.
> What region do you live in?
Baltimore, MD.
> What is your average mileage per segment?
Probably around 500-700.
Oct 20, 1999 | 2:06 pm
#51
Original Member
Join Date: May 1998
Location: Arlington, VA, USA
Posts: 858
I don't worry much any more, either, since I became a million miler at Delta four or five years ago. I think I'd probably qualify on segments (not miles) for Silver.
I think those "Lifetime" status things refer to your lifetime - at least that's the way we're planning mine.
I think those "Lifetime" status things refer to your lifetime - at least that's the way we're planning mine.
Oct 20, 1999 | 4:10 pm
#53
Join Date: Aug 1999
Location: Far forward aisle seat please!
Programs: UA MP, AA Advantage, IHG, HH
Posts: 322
Hmmm.....Most of you folks seem to go the segment route. Myself:
Nailed down 1K again, 5 years running..........
- Miles
- Midwest USA
- 3765 Miles per segment on average
Nailed down 1K again, 5 years running..........
Oct 20, 1999 | 8:50 pm
#54
Join Date: Jul 1999
Location: UK
Programs: reformed ex basic Member
Posts: 3,148
As a non US resident - it's the miles method for me. International segments are dull enough anyway (16 hrs trans pacific) so they'd be unbearable if elite status was by segment only.
For the record - based in Asia, qualify on miles, average approx 5,000 miles per leg.
For the record - based in Asia, qualify on miles, average approx 5,000 miles per leg.
Oct 20, 1999 | 9:20 pm
#55
Join Date: Sep 1999
Programs: AA EXP, SPG PLT, Hyatt DIA, Hilton GLD
Posts: 978
I am Platinum on American. So far this year, 110 segments for 114,000 miles. I agree that AA is sorely missing a segment or mileage qualification alternative for Executive Platinum. Often, domestic tickets over $1,000 still are treated as "discount" tickets and thus only acrue toward Exec. Platinum status at a 50% rate.
Oct 23, 1999 | 1:39 pm
#56
Original Member
Join Date: May 1998
Location: Orange County, CA
Programs: AA GLD 1MM, UA PLT
Posts: 605
On AA I am a Platinum with 54K miles in 35 segments for an average of 1545 miles per segment. I qualified in July on miles.
Since I had no chance of making ExexP on AA, I went back to UA (I was PremEx from living in the Bay Area) and should make Prem on miles with 1315 miles per segment.
I live in Dallas--Southwest.
Since I had no chance of making ExexP on AA, I went back to UA (I was PremEx from living in the Bay Area) and should make Prem on miles with 1315 miles per segment.
I live in Dallas--Southwest.
Oct 29, 1999 | 1:10 am
#58
In Memoriam
Join Date: May 1999
Location: San Francisco UA1K; AA Gold
Posts: 937
San Francisco
United: will earn 1K this year, via miles (prior years achieved Premier Executive, also miles)
average segment = 2,420 miles (includes 6 Europe or Asia nonstops).
American: AAdvantage Gold for the first time, via the challenge (14,600 total miles for 1999)
average segment = 1,460 miles.
United: will earn 1K this year, via miles (prior years achieved Premier Executive, also miles)
average segment = 2,420 miles (includes 6 Europe or Asia nonstops).
American: AAdvantage Gold for the first time, via the challenge (14,600 total miles for 1999)
average segment = 1,460 miles.
Oct 29, 1999 | 2:33 am
#59
In Memoriam
Join Date: May 1998
Location: Seattle
Programs: Ephesians 4:31-32
Posts: 10,690
Being left coasters, we do miles for east/west airlines (in our case UAL and NWA) and segments for north/south (which in any sane person's case is ALASKA--the world's best airline after all). 